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In article <080919991607276510%duncan@algonquin.com>, collardboy <duncan@algonquin.com> writes:
|> Tom Gauldin wrote:
|> 
|> >Then, you and Jesus invest your own time, money and efforts to save
|> >humanity.  Leave the rest of us alone.
|> 
|> It's one thing to question the investment of time and money and
|> military personnel on stopping the violence in East Timor. It's quite
|> another thing to say that "we don't give a sh*t" and "we don't care."
|> 
|> Regarding the use of our military:
|> 
|> When I was in the Marines, I would have been much happier to risk my
|> life for a moral good than for the strategic-economic goals we always
|> were sent off to defend. On the way back from the Gulf, my battalion
|> stopped off to provide humanitarian assistance to a country that had
|> suffered a natural disaster, and the common remark among the Marines
|> was that we were "finally doing something worth something." Throughout
|> our training, we all were prepared to give our lives in service, which
|> is a hard concept to get your mind around. It made it easier to accept
|> when I thought I would be doing something, fighting for something, that
|> God would approve. And stopping people from killing each other, as
|> Jesus stopped the Pharisees from stoning the woman caught in adultery,
|> is something God would approve, I think. What is your money, anyway?

Why?  Read your bible, and see how many killings God *did* approve of,
then ask yourself on what basis you make this assumption.

BTW, you're wasting your time with Tom Gauldin.  He's a former mortgage
banker and, as such, a servant of the devil already.  :-)

|> The concern of a man and his world.
|> 
|> "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not
|> of this world." John 8:23
|> 
|> Duncan

Tom Disque
"My opinions, not SAS Institute's"